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# Style Agent Visibility

> For organizations with the Style Agent — control which style guides each group can see and set the default a check uses.

> **Note**
>
> This page applies only if your organization has the **[Style Agent](/agents/style-agent)** enabled. If you don't see a **Style guides** tab on your groups, your plan doesn't include the Style Agent — talk to your account team to enable it.

When the Style Agent is enabled, each [group](/admin/groups) controls **which style guides its members can use** and an optional **default**. Visibility is **default-closed**: a style guide is hidden from non-admin members until a group is granted access to it. (Admins can always see every style guide in the organization.)

## Make style guides visible to a group

Open a group from **Team Management → Groups**, then select the **Style guides** tab.

![Group style guides tab listing visible style guides with a default selector](/_fern-img/027a7c1acf553cc23ec6566b152a7a01b2f7639a1573ed12839fbce1b88a22d1.webp)

* **Add style guides** — grant the group access to one or more style guides.
* **Set as default** — star one guide as the group's default (see [Default style guide](#default-style-guide) below).
* **Remove** — revoke access. If you remove the starred guide, it stops being the default too.

You can grant the same style guide access to several groups, and a member who belongs to multiple groups sees the union of everything those groups can access.

## Default style guide

A group can have a **default** style guide — the one a check uses when a member doesn't pick one explicitly. On the group's **Style guides** tab, star a visible guide to set it as the default; clear the star to remove it. A guide must be visible to the group before it can be its default.

### Resolving the default when a user is in more than one group

A user can belong to several groups, and more than one of those groups might have a default. When that happens, Markup AI resolves a single default:

1. It looks at the user's groups in **alphabetical order by group name** (case-insensitive) and uses the default from the **first** group that has one.
2. If none of the user's groups has a default, the user has no default style guide and chooses one explicitly when they run a check. Markup AI surfaces this state rather than silently picking one.

For example, a user in both **Engineering** (default: *Microsoft Manual of Style*) and **Marketing** (default: *Promotional*) gets *Microsoft Manual of Style*, because "Engineering" sorts before "Marketing".

> **Note**
>
> A default always points at a style guide the user can actually see. If a default style guide is later removed, or the group's visibility to it is revoked, the default is cleared rather than left dangling.

## Related

#### [Groups](/admin/groups)

Create groups and manage their members.

#### [Style Agent](/agents/style-agent)

The agent that applies the resolved style guide.